PRAGUE — Slovakia’s Health Minister announced his resignation on March 11 in a deal to defuse a political crisis over the acquisition of a Russian vaccine, which had threatened to topple the coalition government.
Associated Press: Slovakia’s health minister resigns to end political crisis
Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovic (R) and Slovak Health Minister Marek Krajci give a press statement at the International Airport in Kosice, Slovakia, on March 1, 2021, after an aircraft of the Slovak Army arrived from Moscow, carrying doses of the Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus (Covid-19).
